Friday, December 10, 2010

Taking Life For Granted

Have you ever taken life for granted? I have before so many times. Now I don’t because I found out a while back that I’m going to have two brothers in wheelchairs. When I found that out that made me really sad. Now it is getting harder every month because we have to take them to the doctors. And the doctors tell us bad things that are happing to them every time. This makes it a lot harder for me and my family.

This year me my mom and my grandma took my brothers up to the hospital and the doctors that my older brother has a cricked back and that he mite not make it threw this year. My little brother’s doctor said that he might not make it to the age of thirteen and that his muscles are getting weaker every year and he’s only eight years old. That means he only has five years to live.

I’m not helping him by getting locked up a lot. He looks up to me and that means I’m not setting a good example for him. So that means I need to pull my head out of my a**and get my head on strait. If you know what I’m talking about you now how I feel. If you ever seen some in a wheelchair just think if that was you then think of these things you cant do when people are doing like go out side and make a snow angel, make a snow man, go swim, go camping, go fishing. They can’t do any thing with strength because they don’t have any. They lose it while they get older.

I learned that I shouldn’t take life for granted because what’s wrong with my brothers. And I hope that you learned some thing from this

8 comments:

zagal, jose said...

Taking life for granted?
Umm, yeah, i have my shares of where i take life and other things for granted like taking advantage or just really not caring abotu it.
i learned the hard way not too take things for granted and now i know that always appreciate the things you have in lofe casue they are most imprtant

ana said...

Dylan i know sort of what your talking about i like how you learned from your mistakes that you were making and you saw that your brothers and your family needed you.
I've sort of been through your situation except that i was just always getting locked up and leaving my lil sisters and brothers and cousins,my aunt took my sisters and me and my lil brother in when my mom started doin drugs so she needed alot of help with work and stuff because i was the oldest out of 9 kids but i always ran and left them there now that i think about it i wish i would have been thetre for me because there already agoing through a hard ttime not having there mom now there loosing me slowly. so it made me open my eyes to whatthey need not just thinking about my self anymore.

Auston H. said...

dang that sucks man. i dont have any one that's in a wheel chair but my great grandpa has all-timers so he doesn't even know who i am and i am not there to help him out because i live far away and because i am always locked up.

Carly said...

This is amazing. Amazing that you care and love for them so much. you did a really good job writing this. sometimes i don't realize how much i have and i take my life for granted. Sometimes when i see people that cant walk or are in wheelchairs i just think... what if that was me. At least you still have about 5 years with your brothers. I wish i would of had 5 more years with my little brother. Get out of the system or whatever. And spend as much time as you can with them. Cause one day they might not be their. And you don't want to have to say you were locked up when you coulda been with them.

Jeremy Brown said...

It was like that for me and my Mom when she got cancer i was scared. I didn't think about how she is more scared then i can ever be. I just thought about myself and how it was gonna be to live without her. After she passed on it didn't know what to do but it gave me strength. Its hard to hear the bad news from the doctor but the best thing to do is to keep your head up and be there for them through this time in in their life.

vosco said...

there were many times in my life that i have taken life for granet and the results. i really have screwed up my life because i took life for granet

Tanner C. (4th) said...

I agree, and think that you don't know what you have until it's gone.
When I got locked up, i realized how much i had before and how little i had then. that gave me a new perspective on life. i realized how hard it was for my parents too, and i just made it worse for them. so now i am trying my hardest to repay them for what i have done. i feel ashamed, but i know they will forgive me. but that perspective didn't stop there. i started really noticing how bad other kids have it than me. that made me even more ashamed, so i am constintly thinking of things i have that i should be more thankful for. and i am human, so i wish for more too, but atleast i am working on it unlike others. but that isn't my buisness.

Brandee. said...

in some way i think everyone has taken life for granted. You dont really realize what you got til its gone, i've learned that life is vary frgile and in a blink of an eye it can change. I'm sorry about your brothers. That's cool they look up to you, Even if your locked up. Everyone makes bad decions but thats why people forgive and forget. Stay up. Your doing great.